. >> is reading and getting ideas from rochester? maybe, maybe not. arriving here in new york in 1860 to speak at cooper union posing again for a photograph before he does this time to commemorate a speech that some say makes him president, lincoln, again seems somehow to intuitive par intuitive pair phrase what he was saying. >> it's brute force, shields itself behind might rather than right. it must be met with its own weapon. >> either let us be slandered from our duty from false accusations against us nor frightened from it by men nass of destruction from the government or in dungeons to ourselves. let us have faith that right makes might. and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. >> as the 1860 presidential election approaches, their positions have evolved. lincoln, seen here in june will tolerate no slavery expansion, but vows he will not interfere where slavery where it already exists. >> douglass photographed around the same time, brings about slavery's ultimate extinction as quickly as possible. >> my pos